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Former ICE official falls short in Ohio battleground district GOP primary

Former ICE official Madison Sheahan lost a GOP primary in a battleground Ohio House district on Tuesday, a relief to Republicans who worried she could sabotage their chances of flipping the seat.Fo...

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Wall Street went to war with crypto. It’s losing.

Powerful Wall Street interests, long used to getting their way when Republicans control Washington, are on the brink of a stunning public defeat in the GOP-run Senate.Senators are poised to move fo...

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Trump administration axes fast-track training for new ICE recruits

The Trump administration is abandoning the accelerated training program it used to quickly deploy the thousands of new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hired in recent months, according t...

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Trump border czar threatens ICE surge if New York approves sanctuary measures

ALBANY, New York — President Donald Trump’s border czar said on Tuesday that the administration will expand its enforcement operations in New York if the state approves a package of sanctuary-like ...

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Another House Republican is under the microscope for alleged sexual misconduct

Two House Republicans who were key last month in helping oust a pair of colleagues facing sexual misconduct allegations are now eying GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards — the two-term North Carolina lawmaker b...

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New York Democrats amplify their push for 2028 redistricting

ALBANY, New York — New York Democrats doubled down on their push to join the national battles over redistricting Tuesday, with Rep. Joe Morelle paying a visit to the Capitol as Minority Leader Hake...

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Appeals court split on ICE’s mandatory detention policy

A federal appeals court deadlocked over the Trump administration’s bid to lock up the majority of people it is seeking to deport, without an opportunity for release on bond.The divided panel of the...

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Civil servant awards get DOGE’d

Prominent civil service awards will hit differently this year after the Trump administration decimated the federal workforce.The Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan good government resear...

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US government expands vetting of frontier AI models for security risks

Top artificial intelligence firms Microsoft, xAI and Google DeepMind have inked deals with the Commerce Department that will allow the government to vet their AI models for national security risks ...

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We Need a Left-Labor Presidential Candidate

Donald Trump’s return to power has brought chaos and real harm to millions of people. It’s no surprise that much of the opposition to his administration has been defensive, trying to block the wors...

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Inside the collapse of the Canada-US trade deal

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney left the White House in early October with Canada and the United States in reach of a trade deal.Inside the meeting, senior U.S. officials were enthusiastic abou...

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‘We Want to Move on From Losing’: Pritzker on Antisemitism, Trump and 2028

CHICAGO — Nobody asks “who sent ya?” when you walk into Manny’s Deli, pick up a tray and deliberate over pastrami or corned beef to go with your latke.This South Loop institution welcomes every el...

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These Indiana Republicans dared to buck Trump. Will they survive?

INDIANAPOLIS — In May of 2016, on the eve of using Indiana’s primary to knock out his presidential rivals and claim control of the GOP nomination, then-candidate Donald Trump called the state “Impo...

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Abortion pills are saving women’s lives. The right is trying to eliminate them | Moira Donegan

The supreme court has kicked the can down the road after a federal court sought to ban the mailing of mifepristoneAn event that ruined lives, degraded the citizenship of hundreds of millions, and p...

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The House of Representatives Is Turning Into the Electoral College

The very short list of constraints on partisan gerrymandering has gotten even shorter. Until last week, the Supreme Court had interpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to require states to dra...

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Democrats Could Use a Cold Shower Before the Midterms

The Democratic wilderness is starting to look awfully sunny. Gone, for the most part, are the blame-casting, hand-wringing, and paralysis-by-analysis that gripped the party after Donald Trump’s ree...

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My Role as a ‘Complicit’ Journalist

Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump late last month, appeared to consume political news like so many of his fellow citizens, absorbing daily doses of outrage ...

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XAI sidelines major water reuse project as IPO looms

When Elon Musk brought xAI to Memphis, Tennessee, the company made a promise to locals worried that its data center would drain the local water supply: They would build a state-of-the-art water rec...

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Trump ballroom project security funding included in $72B GOP enforcement bill

Senate Republicans are including funding for Secret Service security upgrades related to President Donald Trump’s ballroom project as part of a nearly $72 billion package that would shovel cash to ...

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Hegseth says battle for Hormuz is ‘separate and distinct' from the Iran war

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted Tuesday that the American-led operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is “separate and distinct” from the wider war with Iran, the most concrete public admi...

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Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter stock disclosures

Elon Musk has struck a settlement deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve a 2025 lawsuit tied to the billionaire's purchases of Twitter stock three years earlier, according to a...

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